The Machine Learning Workshop - Second Edition

Appendix

1. Introduction to Scikit-Learn

Activity 1.01: Selecting a Target Feature and Creating a Target Matrix

Solution:

1. Load the titanic dataset using the seaborn library:

   import seaborn as sns

   titanic = sns.load_dataset('titanic')

   titanic.head(10)

   The first couple of rows should look as follows:

   

   Figure 1.22: An image showing the first 10 instances of the Titanic dataset

2. Select your preferred target feature for the goal of this activity.

   The preferred target feature could be either survived or alive. This is mainly because both of them label whether a person survived the crash. For the following steps, the variable that's been chosen is survived ...